Re: Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > (I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list) Bad assumption. The list isn't broken. > Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for > typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style. So can they

Re: Clever quotes

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: > > > Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover > > most areas that could be problematic? > > Paul > >sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > | The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using > > | whitespace... > > > > find foo -name \*.gif -print -exec convert {} `basename {}`.png \; > > then (ha!) > > Thanks. I've just

Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
[drifting off-topic] In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using > whitespace... > > Perhaps the bigger problem is that you can overrun the internal array size > used by "for" to store the list of returne

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Maybe it's just my mail client, but this list seems to default for a > reply to the sender instead of to the list, unlike all the other lists > I've ever been on. I accidently sent a reply intended for the list to > the sender and didn't rea

RE: Lyx command line question: summarized

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > 2) run, before you run pdflatex, something like > for FILE in `find . -name '*\.gif'`; do convert $FILE `echo $FILE | sed > 's/\(.*\.\)gif/\1png/'`; done basename is safer: for file in $(find . -name *.gif) do conv

Re: Defining paragraph styles

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Mike Meyer wrote: > >>Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx? > ... > > Well, you have sort of overlooked what I think is the point of > > LyX/LaTeX. But we'll skip that. >

Re: Defining paragraph styles

2005-10-16 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx? > > I'm new to LyX and TeX, and I'm just trying to use it to typeset a book. > It's going well, I'm using the "book" document class, I get a nice > output, but now I want to change t

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: >One of the biggest hurdles for users to pass is the compulsion to tweak > minor appearance details. My explanation of the LaTeX/LyX philosphy is: Word processors make it easy to get the pages that look exactly like you want them

Re: lyx to OO conversion tool?

2005-09-23 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Nicol > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Can someone please point me to a tool that wil

Re: lyx to OO conversion tool?

2005-09-23 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Can someone please point me to a tool that will convert a LyX document > to a soffice document, no matter how rough the tool is? When I asked this earli this month, the only thing that came up was tex4ht. I tried it, but it didn't do

Re: Open, take two

2005-09-18 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > * Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-09-19 06:40 +0200: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > [...] > > And under OS X, it's called open, but it&#x

Re: Open, take two

2005-09-18 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > "open" is designed to provide Unix users with a single tool for > > dealing with the multitude of applications that deal with data files. > > Without open - or something like it > Under windows/dos, this is called start. Anyway, how do

Open, take two

2005-09-18 Thread Mike Meyer
Ok, I know this is a strange place to announce a new Unix tool. But LyX is the inspiration for this, and workinng well with LyX is a high priority. I'd like to get feedback from LyX users early, so please bear with me. To provide some motivation for looking at this, here's an excerpt from my .lyx/p

Re: Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-16 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > I haven't been able to find anything to handle the "to" part. Can > > someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc > > files in Writer.

Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-15 Thread Mike Meyer
I've got a project that requires exchanging documents with others using StarOffice Writer (or one of it's children). Part of the requirement is to get change bars as the document moves back and forth. 1.4.0 apparently has change bar support - I haven't tried it yet. That's excellent, and I have no

Re: lyx/windows installation

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > >> Open file by extension is a very common practice > >> under windows. Under linux/unix, we also only need to keep track of > >> command names, not their pathes. > > > > BTW, it is very un-windows when someone has to set > > c:\p

Re: lyx/windows installation

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > * sh for the configure script. It would be nice to rewrite it in > > python, but nobody is brave enough to do it > It is not terribly long (1600 lines) and most of the code are simple > test/if/else that can > be replaced by equivalen

Re: Command Control

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I use LyX on both Unix and the Mac. The Mac version does a marvelous > > job of looking like a Mac application (at least to my > > not-very-mac

Command Control

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
I use LyX on both Unix and the Mac. The Mac version does a marvelous job of looking like a Mac application (at least to my not-very-mac-enabled-eyes), but it does so by mapping the control key bindings to the command key. This means I can't use the non-Mac bindings - especially the emacs bindings -

Re: Cannot get docbook on a mac

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
[Apologies to those of you who are seeing this twice.] In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Mike Meyer wrote: > > the configure script walks your $PATH looking for sgmltools and/or > > db2dvi to decide whether

Re: Cannot get docbook on a mac

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I am new to this forum, but have used lyx a little bit over a > longish period of time. I now run on OS X tiger and installed the > Tex bundle with fink (which appears to include a bunch of > sgml/docbook stuff) and the Aqua version o

Re: Simple questions.

2005-09-11 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > What I mean is that most applications let you open multiple windows > > for "editing" puproses, with each window usually restricted to a > > specific file. So when you open multiple documents, you get a window > > per document,

Re: Simple questions.

2005-09-11 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > _/ On Fri 09 Sep 2005 22:14:14 BST, [Mike Meyer] wrote : \_ > > > Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > X-Primary-Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > X-face: > > "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):r

Re: "open" for Unix.

2005-09-10 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > _/ On Sun 11 Sep 2005 01:14:55 BST, [Mike Meyer] wrote : \_ > > > Based on discussion regarding the configuration process on lyx-devel, > > I started working on a generic "file opene

"open" for Unix.

2005-09-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Based on discussion regarding the configuration process on lyx-devel, I started working on a generic "file opener" for Unix, ala "open" on OS X and "start" on Windows. A first release is ready. I've tested it on a number of different things, including using it to launch all my viewers from LyX. Yo

Simple questions.

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Meyer
Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Primary-Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ --text follows this line-- 1) Has anyone done a layout file for unixman.sty? Google didn't turn one up, nor did

Re: fonts.alias / fonts.scale

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, /* jsha */ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I've got a directory filled with Type1 fonts (.afm, .inf, .pfa, .pfb and .pfm > accompanying each font release) which I'm trying to install on X11. However, > in order to make mkfontdir work I seem to need a fonts.alias and/or fonts.sc